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John LaFratta is a defense attorney in both civil and criminal cases. Over the years he has represented clients charged with every conceivable crim...
- Added: Mar 11, 2024
- Length: 27:47
Kimberly had talked about her house as if it was a person, her best friend as she put it. Stephanie saw her house as a metaphor for her life, falli...
- Added: Nov 10, 2023
- Length: 24:53
Approximately twelve percent of America’s population living in poverty. That’s not including those who barely make it month to month. Some see pove...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 09, 2021
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
The Works Progress Administration, what became better known as the WPA, was designed to provide jobs for unemployed Americas. One of their provoca...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 05, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in children from 1 to 14 years old. According to the American Cancer Society more than 10,000 children ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 18, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 29:00
Guilt can haunt any parent whose child commits suicide. That’s especially true for a murder-suicide.
- Added: Jul 12, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Twelve-year old Deamonte Driver died following brain surgery in February 2007. His original diagnosis was meningitis. After his death, the culprit...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 23, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Karla Helbert is many things. An accomplished writer and veteran therapist. Wife, mother, artist. A seeker, too. Libertine in matters spiritual. A...
- Added: Nov 04, 2016
- Length: 27:06
Abbie Waters lived in Richmond, Virginia and attended Holton Elementary School. She had survived a rare form of cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. F...
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 27:28
Abbie Catherine Waters was just nine years and two days old when she left this world. I have heard men and women who knew Abbie refer to her as an ...
- Added: May 20, 2016
- Length: 26:25
Elisheva and Amaris, mother and daughter, know a thing or two about uphill battles where every inch of gained ground costs dearly. Each in her way ...
- Added: May 07, 2016
- Length: 27:49
America is in the midst of an obesity epidemic of catastrophic proportion. Today, two-thirds of adults, and one-third of children and adolescents –...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Fathers and Children is about a man named Melvin Major who became father to hundreds of young people. But he has no offspring.
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 27:40
Andrew Soloman's proposal, in his recent book, is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition. Our differences are what unite us.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KCBX
- Added: Nov 12, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
Destination DIY profiles two families who live the DIY lifestyle every day by growing and making most of what they need.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2013
- Length: 08:20
- Purchases: 1
Anthony’s latest book, “Hotels, Hospitals and Jails” describes his life after the pluses and minuses of the fame of "Jarhead." In that book he chro...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 10:02
- Purchases: 2
this week’s episode contains two parts. The first act is called Weather or Not. Act Two is titled Life Among The Immortals. They’re about my two s...
- Added: Jan 29, 2013
- Length: 28:11
Why is the parenting phrase "go out and play, kids!" becoming endangered? Meredith Grimm wanted to ask how parents avoid both hovering and neglect ...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 35:25
- Purchases: 1
About 10-percent of kids in school – approximately 9 to 13 million students – struggle with mental health problems. Whether they’re running out of ...
- Added: May 11, 2012
- Length: 17:25
This week's stories are about words, and the silences between sentences. Madelyn Young reaches out to one of her students, Robin Satterfield strugg...
Bought by PRX Remix, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Griffin Bourassa possesses many traits of a typical 15 year old boy, but there is one facet of his life that is not normal.
- Added: May 27, 2011
- Length: 07:06
- Purchases: 2
Libby St. Pierre knew since she was a young girl that she wanted only a few simple things in life: a career, which she has as a nurse in Auburn, Ma...
- Added: Jan 05, 2011
- Length: 05:50
- Purchases: 3
For the first time, Radio Rookies presents an hour-long special, “Growing Up, Getting By”, hosted by WNYC reporter and Radio Rookies founder Marian...
Bought by KSFR, WHRV, KUT, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM and more
- Added: Nov 10, 2009
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 26:29
- Purchases: 1
